Beardemphl, W. E., editor, Larry Carlson et al

Vector; vol. 4, no. 8, August 1968 [there are two issues dated number 8 this volume]

Society for Individual Rights, San Francisco. 1968, 32p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos and ads, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story "The Homosexual and Old Age" The numbering system became disordered with this volume as earlier issues doubled. During this period the magazine was still mainly an information bsource for LGBT services, events and concerns. By the early 1970s it had begun to rely more on physique photography. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men.The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area